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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

So Far, It's Scary...

At 1930 hours, the Democrats need 5 for the House and 3 for the Senate to become the majority.

I'm hoping that it holds that way....scares the Republicans into not taking the base for granted. And keeps the Democrats away from the levers of power....

1935 hours-Lieberman has won the seat in the Senate. The Kos-Kids canidate has lost, and hopefully that's a warning to them.

2000 hours-Down to 2 House, 3 Senate. I so do not want to see a happy Nancy Pelosi take the Speaker's seat. No matter how happy it would make the Terrorists...

2005 hours-I think it'll be a Democratic House, Republican Senate. House is down to one seat for the Democrats to control, the Senate to three.

2018 hours-Democrats have won the House. Senate is three more seats away to a win. The problem is that the Democrats haven't won the massive levels that the Republicans did in 1994, and they were expecting to sweep into power. Looking at the run-up for the Democrat chairmans...it's like watching the '60s radicals come to power.

Why did the Republicans lose? They tended to not really fight for the causes, and they didn't bring out the big guns (Bush, their record) until late. I think it's in the mindset-Republicans (for the most part) want to get things done. Democrats want to change the world. That means Democrats have to stay in power to change the world, to save it.

2030 hours-I think Glenn Renyolds had this right, that we had more people voting, and that is a good thing. I only wish we had more Republican wins, but there you go.

2045 hours-Democrats +3 in the House, the Senate is still three in the hands of the Republican. The split Congress will be fun to watch...

2100 hours-Democrats +5 in the House. Extremely close Senate races. I'm going to hate all the crow the Democrats are going to try and start stuffing...

2115 hours-Can't watch the Pelosi speech. She has an orgasm face, like she's coming to winning this election...I can't even listen to her blathering. Worse, I need to...

Even worse, she's interrupting House, which sucks. I LIKE watching House, it is one of my few guilty pleasures.

2145 hours-Democrats +7. I'm pissed about this, very pissed. I suspect that we'll be facing a serious call to see the troops "redeployed" (i.e. sent home). Welcome to future terror attacks, with the terrorists thinking that if they kill enough and hold out long enough, they can get us to retreat, the lesson of Vietnam. $5 says there will be trouble somewhere major in Iraq or Israel before the end of the year...

2200 hours-Democrats +8 in the House. It seems like it'll be considered a "referendum on the War on Terror/Iraq", and that'll be what changes first.

2245 hours-Still +8. It's a loss, but it's not like the Republican Revolution in '94, and the Democrats that won seemed to have run close to the center, and not the Daily Kos/Soros/Tranzi trinity. I think a lot of people wanted a change...but not a cut and run in Iraq. It will be an interesting Congressional run for the next two years, as long as there isn't a major terrorist event...

As long as the Republicans can keep a single seat in the Senate, it will be hard to pull any major turns to the left, in the form of taxes and "progressive" causes.